Garden of Flowers

Good Morning and Welcome

Today's card features our mid-month release from A Colorful Life Designs called

Mid Century Minimalist

I used it to make a fun background for my flower vine.

So, here's what I did to create my card.

• I placed the Mid Century Minimalist stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide ink.
• I wiped the stencil off and then placed it back over the pattern, turning it sideways and inked it again with some Salty Ocean DOX ink. What a fun pattern it created.
• While that dried, I die cut the flowers and glued a piece of clear vellum behind the frame of the flowers. 
• I glued my stenciled card front onto a piece of blue cardstock and then onto an A2 sized white card base.
• I glued the climbing flower vine over the background and then added some pearl gems to the flower centers.

Here is the stencil I used:

Mid Century Minimalist

My Discount Code for Your Entire Order from A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Much thanks for stopping by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- FABULOUS FLORALS

Just Add Ink- STENCIL/DIES OR BOTH

Cut it Up- CREATE YOUR OWN BKG

The Sisterhood of Crafters- FLOWERS

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White/Blue/ clear Vellum

Accessories and Tools- Stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Flower Vine die (Temu);

pearl gems

Have Faith

Hello and Welcome

Today's card features another one of the new for JUNE stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Rope Trellis

Here's what I did to get the look.

• I placed the Rope Trellis stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Broken China Distress Oxide ink.
• I cleaned the stencil off, shifted it to the right and inked again with some Wilted Violet DOX ink.
• Next, I turned the stencil totally sideways and inked again with more of the Wilted Violet DOX ink to create this fun woven looking background.
• While that dried, I die cut the Flower Squares with some white cardstock and backed them with a small piece of clear vellum so they would show up better against the background.
• I placed the stenciled card front into my Misti to stamp the sentiment and glued the flowers across the front.
• I glued the finished panel onto a piece of white cardstock, then purple and then onto a white A2 sized card base.

Here is the stencil I used:

Rope Trellis

My Discount Code for Your Entire Order from A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks a lot for taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- O IS FOR OUTDOOR

SSS Wed.- ADD A SENTIMENT

Just Us Girls- SUMMER

Fab 'n' Funky- SUMMER FLOWERS

Supplies

Stamps- Spiritual Sampler (Paper Smooches- closed)

Inks- Versafine Clair; Distress Oxides

Paper- Solar White; vellum

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); TE Blending Brushes;

Flower Squares die (Temu); Misti (My Sweet Petunia)

Hooray and YAY!

Welcome

As most of you already know, I love combining stencils to create fun new patterns and designs.

So for today's card, I combined 2 new stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Circles and Diamonds and Flower Rays

Here's what I did to create my card.

• I began by rubbing some Uncharted Mariner Distress Oxide ink over the back of the Circles and Diamonds stencil, sprayed with Rubbing Alcohol and pressed onto the paper. 
• Leaving the stencil in place, I rubbed some more of the Broken China DOX over the stencil, filling in the circles.
• I lifted that stencil off and positioned the Flower Rays stencil over the background and inked it up with some Prize Ribbon and some Uncharted Mariner DOX ink. The flowers gave the background such a great feeling of energy.
• Next, I looked through my scrap pieces of inked cardstock and found this one that I had done using Brushos on white cardstock so I used that to die cut my sentiment and glued it onto the white word shadow.
• I glued my stenciled card front onto a piece of navy cardstock and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment over the middle of my card.

Here are the stencils I used:

Circles and Diamonds 

Flower Rays

My Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks a lot for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- MAY FLOWERS

Allsorts- MONOCHROMATIC or ANYTHING GOES

Cut it Up- FLOWERS

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar white/ navy cs

Accessories and Tools- stencils (A Colorful Life Designs); TE Blending Brushes;

Rubbing Alcohol; YAY die (Whimsy Stamps); foam tape

Floral Thank You

 

Good Morning

Today's card's card features a new for May stencil that is unique and so fun.

So meet the newly released:

THANK YOU BOWS 

from A Colorful Life Designs.

Here's what I did to create my card.

• I placed the Thank You Bows stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Antique Linen Distress Oxide ink.
• I placed the stenciled piece into my Misti and stamped the flowers over to the side with some black Versafine Clair ink.
• While that dried, I stamped the sentiment and die cut it out.
• I glued my card front panel onto a piece of beige cardstock and then onto a white A2 card base.
• To finish my card off, I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment over to the side.

Here is the stencil I used:

THANK YOU BOWS

My Discount Code for Your Entire Order from A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Much thanks for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

SSS Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

The Paper Players- FEMININE

Crafty Catz- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Everyday Tags (Avery Elle); Flowers (Magenta)

Inks- DOX; Versafine Clair

Paper- heavy white (Amazon)

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); TE Blending Brushes;

Infinity Circle die- HA; Misti (My Sweet Petunia)

Birthday Flowers

What a fun card this new for May stencil from a Colorful Life Designs made.

So meet the newly released stencil called:

FLOWER RAYS

Here's what I did to create my card.

• I placed the Flower Rays stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked some of the flowers with some Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide ink.  Next, I inked some with Ripe Persimmon and some Broken China DOX ink.
• Leaving the stencil in place, I used a fine line black marker to trace around the outlines in the stencil to help define the flowers.
• Next, using the end of a pencil eraser, I added the dots in the same colours as the flowers.
• I stamped the sentiment in my Misti with some black ink and then die cut it into a circle.
• I glued my stenciled card front onto a piece of white cardstock, then onto a piece of pink and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment up over the background.

Here is the stencil I used:

FLOWER RAYS

My Discount Code for Your Entire Order from A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

I Spy with My Little Eye Ellibelle's Corner- SPRING FLOWERS or SPRING SHOWERS

Just Us Girls- CASE A DT- CAROL

(I used a stencil instead of Washi, added just the sentiment in a circle) 

Supplies

Stamps- Birthday Greetings (Temu)

Inks- Distress Oxides; Versafine Clair

Paper- white (Amazon)

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); TE Blending Brushes;

Infinity Circle die (HA); Misti (My Sweet Petunia)

Spotlight Debossing

Welcome

It's my turn to host the TLC over at Splitcoast Stampers this week.

The technique we will be trying out I'm calling:

SPOTLIGHT EMBOSSING

So, here's what I did to create my card.

• I began by looking through my coloured cardstock until I found 2 complimentary colours.
• Using a rectangle die, I cut from both pieces.
• I took out this flower Embossing Folder and placed the blue sheet down first and fitted the small green die cut inside that and ran it through my machine inside the folder. BE SURE AND USE THE DEBOSS SIDE OF YOUR FOLDER.
• I glued the pieces onto a base, matching up the embossed pattern, debossed side up.
• Holding my black ink pad flat against the surface, I covered the whole card with black ink and set that aside to dry.
• I die cut the sympathy sentiment in black and glued that onto the white word shadow.
• I glued the card front panel onto a piece of green cardstock and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• Lastly, I used some foam tape to add the sentiment across the front of my card and added a black gem to dot the 'i'.

Thanks a lot for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Can You Handle the Pressure- ANYTHING GOES/option; Kids

Allsorts- SPRINGTIME or ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- Versafine Clair

Papers- random

Accessories and Tools- Floral Field 

Eb folder (SSS); Infinity Rectangle dies (Hero Arts);

With Sympathy die (SSS)

Listen to the Music

 

Welcome

Today's monochrome card features the new for March stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called

MUSIC

So here's what I did to create my card.

• I got out a piece of linen paper, it has texture and gives a bit of a mottled look when inking. I used the MUSIC stencil and inked it with some Salty Ocean Distress Oxide ink across the top part of my white card base.
• Next, I placed the piece into my Misti to stamp the flowers and all the details around the edges of my card using Uncharted Mariner Distress Oxide ink.  I also stamped the sentiment in the open area above the flowers.
• I used the ink left on my blending brush and added more colour just across the middle of my card front to add more interest and take down the stark white.
• I glued the piece onto white cardstock, then a pale mauve  and then onto a white A2 sized card base.

Here is the stencil I used:

MUSIC

My Discount Code for Your Entire Order from A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks a lot for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- SIGNS OF SPRING

Simon Says Wed.- CLEAN AND SIMPLE

Crafty Calendar- SPRING

Stamping Sensations- SPRING or ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Natures Flowers (Art Journey); Flowers are the Music (Rubbernecker)

Inks- DOX

Paper- linen

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); TE Blending Brushes;

Misti (My Sweet Petunia)

Special Friend

Good Morning

It's been so gloomy and very cold here with lots of snow. 

I needed some colour to brighten my day and this stencil was a welcome sight.

So meet the newly released stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Nine Flowers

Here's what I did to create my card.

• I looked through my stash and found this yellow Gel Plate print I had done awhile ago using some Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide ink and the Simple Mosaic stencil. I thought it would make a good sunny feeling background for my flowers.
• I placed the Nine Flowers stencil over my print and then inked the flowers with some Lumberjack Plaid DOX ink.  To help enhance the look of the flowers, I added some Wilted Violet DOX ink just to the flower centers which gave some nice colour variation.
• The flowers looked a bit flat to me so I used my white Posca pen to add some details.
• When it was all dry, I die cut the word shadow right from the bottom of my stenciled panel, then die the sentiment in black and glued them together.
• I glued my finished card front onto a piece of white cardstock and then onto a piece of red and then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment back into place.

Here are the stencils I used:

Nine Flowers

Simple Mosaic

(older release)

My Discount Code for Your Entire Order from A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Much thanks for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Cut it Up- THIS MAKES ME HAPPY

Alphabet Challenge- 'U' IS FOR UPLIFTING

Allsorts- CREATE YOUR OWN BKG

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- solar white

Accessories and Tools- stencils (A Colorful Life Designs); Gel Plate; 

white Posca pen; TE Blending Brushes; Friend die (Amazon)

The October Sky

Welcome October

It's a new month and an exciting time for all the new releases at A Colorful Life Designs.

Meet the new

Marvelous Masks Arch Stencils

These Mask sets have a number of different sized masks and stencils to use for cards or scrapbook pages.

There is nothing like the colours of a Fall morning sky, so here's what I did to create my Fall inspired card.

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and then placed one of the Marvelous Masks Arch stencils over my cardstock.
• Beginning at the top of the arch, I inked it up with some Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide ink.
• Next, I inked with some Ripe Persimmon and then some Picked Raspberry DOX ink, blending them all together until the whole stencil was inked.
• I lifted the stencil off and placed the panel into my Misti to stamp the flowers and the sentiment in the top corner.
• I glued my card front panel onto a piece of pink cardstock, then onto an A2 sized white card base.
• I added 3 black gems around the sentiment to finish my card off.

Here are the mask sets:

Marvelous Masks Arch

My Discount Code for Your Entire Order from A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Please check out our new releases for October.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Seize the Birthday- STENCIL

Crazy is Our Fame, STENCILS are Our Game- ANYTHING GOES/NATURE

Crafty Gals Corner- FALL SPLENDOR

Supplies

Stamps- Thistle, Clover Silouette (Magenta); Beautiful You (STAMPlorations)

Inks- DOX, Versafine Clair

Paper- Prism Solar White

Accessories and Tools- Stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Misti (My Sweet Petunia); 

black gems; TE Blending Brushes

Wrap Around

Good Morning

Meet this new geometric stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Bauhaus

So here's what I did to create my card.

• Today, I thought I would look through my patterned papers where I found this blue check paper.  That was my starting point.
• I placed the Bauhaus stencil over the patterned paper and inked it up with some Prize Ribbon Distress Oxide ink.
• Next, I die cut the flowers with some white cardstock.  I die cut a circle with a piece of navy cardstock, then some blue to match the stenciled panel and glued those together.
• I cut my white cardstock base with a top fold design, then scored and glued my stenciled piece so it wrapped around from the front to the back.  I trimmed the edges with a narrow piece of the blue cardstock to give it a more finished look.
• Finally, to finish off my card, I used some foam tape to add the flower circle over my card front.

Here is the stencil I used:

Bauhaus

My Discount Code for Your Entire Order from A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

I appreciated your visit...thank you.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Crazy is Our Fame; Stencils are Our Game- ANYTHING GOES/Optional TREES or LEAVES

Try it on Tuesday- SUMMER

Ellibelle's Corner- Anything In or From a Garden

Neglected Stuff- ANYTHING GOES

(neglected- die and this patterned paper)

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White/ Coloured cs

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Daisy Circle (Paper Rose)

TE Blending Brushes; foam tape

Garden Joys

Good Morning

Today's card features more stencil layering by combining 2 of the new releases from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Droplet Grid and Sea Net

So, here's what I did to create my card.

• I placed the Sea Net stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink.  It reminded me of a garden trellis.
• Leaving the stencil in place, I put the Droplet Grid right on top of the net stencil and inked again with some Rustic Wilderness DOX ink.
• I lifted both stencils off and using a white Posca pen, I splattered over the stenciling.
• While that dried, I die cut the sentiment from some white cardstock 5x's and glued them all together to make a raised sentiment.  I glued that onto the word shadow I had cut from some blue cardstock.
• I die cut the daisies, added a hint of blue to the centers and then glued them together.  
• I glued my card front onto a piece of white cardstock and then onto a piece of blue and then onto a white  A2 sized card base.
• I glued the sentiment and the flowers over the background.

Here are the stencils I used:

Sea Net

Droplet Grid

My Discount Code for Your Entire Order from A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- FOCUS ON SENTIMENT

Simon Says Monday- SUMMERTIME BLUES

Allsorts- PRETTY FLOWRES/ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White

Accessories and Tools- stencils (A Colorful Life Designs); Blending Brushes (TE); 

Friend die (Amazon); Layered Daisy die (Amazon); white Posca pen; foam tape

Happy Smiles

Welcome

I'm here today with another fun, summery looking card featuring the newly released stencil called:

Waterfall

from A Colorful Life Designs

So, here's what I did to create my card.

• I placed a piece of white cardstock onto my Make Art Station and put the Waterfall stencil over that securing well.
• Next, I inked with some Fossilized Amber, Ripe Persimmon and some Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide ink.
• I wiped the stencil off, flipped it over and inked again with the same colours mentioned above. It created a fun, flowing background.
• While that dried, I die cut the sentiment with some orange cardstock and glued it onto the white shadow word die.
• I glued the stenciled panel onto a piece of white cardstock, then a piece of orange and then onto an A2 sized white card base.
• I glued the flowers onto the base and used some foam tape to add the sentiment along the bottom.

Here is the stencil I used:

Waterfall

My Discount Code for Your Entire Order from A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- FOCUS ON THE SENTIMENT

Simon Says Mon.- MAKE YOUR OWN BKG

The Creative Crafters- ANYTHING GOES

Love to Craft- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); TE Blending Brushes;

Die Cut flower (Dollar Store); Sending Smiles die (SSS); Make Art Station (Ranger)